A Thai solider arranges bottles of drinking water to be transported to Phuket at Bangkok military airport. Rescuers converged on beaches and islands to search for survivors. (Sakchai Lalit, AP)

South Korean workers from Korea Red Cross carry 8000 blankets for victims of the earthquake in Suwon, south of Seoul. The South Korean Red Cross will supply emergency aid worth 100 million won (US$95900) to Indonesia, which was hard hit by Sunday's earthquake and tidal wave. (Lee Jin-man, AP)

An airport crew member prepares relief supplies to transport to Aceh Province at Halim Perdana Kesumah Airforce base in Jakarta. Indonesia has so far confirmed the deaths of around 5000 people as a result of Sunday's quake and the tsunamis it triggered across Asia and Africa. Most of the deaths in Indonesia have been in Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra Island. (Tatan Syuflana, AP)

A Chinese worker unload boxes of food donations at the airport in Beijing, China. China on Tuesday is sending a plane carrying US$610,000 (euro448,000) in tents, blankets and food plus US$200,000 (euro147,000) in cash to India and Sri Lanka, the government's Xinhua News Agency said. China has made an initial pledge of US$2.6 million (euro1.9 million) in aid to the affected countries. (Ng Han Guan, AP)

Students of a college distribute rice packets to villagers who were affected by tidal waves at Woollapalem, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, India. About 40000 people are reported dead around southern Asia. The death toll in India is more than 4300. Twelve people are reported to have been killed at Woollapalem and more than 300 families affected. (Mustafa Quraishi, AP)

Students of a college distribute rice packets to villagers who were affected by tidal waves at Woollapalem, in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, India. (Mustafa Quraishi, AP)

Tourists wave as they leave Phi Phi Island in Thailand. Soldiers used bulldozers Tuesday to push into a strip of Thai luxury resorts destroyed by tidal waves, and picked the bodies of European tourists from ruined gardens and suites. Officials said at least 700 foreigners had died, and the death toll could reach 2000. (Suzanne Plunkett, AP)

Sombat Changsakol displays a photograph of missing Canadian boyfriend Gilles Chenir in Phuket, Thailand. Changsakol and Chenir were at a beachside resort north of Phuket when a tidal wave struck the resort on Sunday. Thousands are missing in what is being described as the worst natural disaster of recent times. (David Longstreath, AP)

Australian tourist Cassandra MacBegan, center, buys food and supplies from a local Sri Lankan shop keeper as Welsh tourist James Thorne, right, holds his head, after they had to cut short their surfing holiday due to the tidal wave that hit the coastal towns of Sri Lanka, in the town of Bentota, Sri Lanka. Families of the dead used cooking utensils and even their bare hands to dig graves in the aftermath of a huge tidal wave in Sri Lanka, as rescuers searching through the debris uncovered thousa

An Indian Air force personal, in blue, controls the crowd waiting to be evacuated from Nicobar, at Cambal Bay, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands. (Manish Swarup, AP)

Women and children, victims of tidal waves from Cambal Bat and Nicobar sit in an Indian Air Force AN32 plane as they are evacuated in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands. (Manish Swarup, AP)

A boy reacts as he receives anti-tetanus injection from a medic at a relief camp at Nagore, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. (Gurinder Osan, AP)

Crates of humanitarian aid wait to be loaded onto a plane in Barcelona. The aid shipment is destined for Sri lanka where more than 18 000 people are reported dead after a massive tidal wave slammed into the island after the quake off Indonesia's coast on Sunday. (Bernat Armangue, AP)

Annal Mary carries her 20-day-old baby S.Tulasi, who survived the tsunamis shows the place where her baby sleeping when the tsunami waves hit her restaurant in Penang resort island, northwestern Malaysia. (Andy Wong, AP)

Residents burn garbage as they try to clean up the debris left on the Galle coast line, an otherwise popular tourist attraction that was one of the places most affected by the tidal waves in southern Sri Lanka. (Elizabeth Dalziel, AP)

Soldiers carry aid aboard a Sri Lankan armed forces chopper on to the helipad in the town of Galle, which was severely damaged after the tidal wave, in southern Sri Lanka. Trucks and cargo planes ferried food, drinking water and medical supplies to welfare centers sheltering some of the one million Sri Lankans left homeless by the massive Asian tsunami, amid reports that some supplies were being hijacked. (Elizabeth Dalziel, AP)

Workers labor to remove debris outside a shopping mall where many more bodies are believed to be still buried in downtown Galle, southern Sri Lanka. The biggest problem we are facing right now is the disposal of dead bodies and coordinating the relief efforts to reach the most affected areas," said Miguel Bermeo, head of the United Nation's agencies in Colombo.(Elizabeth Dalziel, AP)

Taiwanese rescue workers make their way for an afternoon break as they search for body of victims of tidal waves and flooding at Khao Lak in Pang-Nga province, southern Thailand. (Apichart Weerawong, AP)

A group of about 100 people hold candles to pray for victims tsunami-damaged Banda Aceh during a candle-light vigil in Jakarta, Indonesia. Officials got their first glimpse of the region Wednesday and the national death toll rose to 36 268 as some bodies there were counted. (Eugene Hoshiko, AP)

A church staff, center, gestures to the photographer not to take pictures as local residents look at a display of photographs of unidentified victims who were killed by tidal waves, and were buried before they would be identified or claimed, inside a church in Velakanni, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. (Gurinder Osan, AP)

Thai school boys help loading relief bags at the relief center at Phuket city hall in Phuket province, southern Thailand. (Apichart Weerawong, AP)

A Western man and Thais check lists of dead persons erected at the relief center at city hall in Phuket province, southern Thailand. (Apichart Weerawong, AP)

South African Elbie Venter, left, is greeted a relative on her arrival from Phuket, Thailand, at Johannesburg International Airport. A special flight bought some 65 South African survivors and the bodies of four who perished in the wake of the quake and tsunami in south east Asia. (Str, AP)

South African, Lisa Bernstein, center right, is greeted by a relative on her arrival from Phuket, Thailand, at Johannesburg International Airport. (Str, AP)

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